Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1919 — BRIDGE FOREMAN WAS POISONED [ARTICLE]

BRIDGE FOREMAN WAS POISONED

For 27 Months Was So Run Down He Didn’t Earn a Dollar. “It has been 27 months since I earned a dollar, but thanks to the quick results of Tanlac, I am going back to work In just a few days,” said J. W. Bell, In an Interview at the home of his brother, living at 948 West 31st St., Indianapolis, Ind., recently. Mr. Bell’s home is at 45-Eldorado St., Stockton, Calif., where he owns valuable property and is well known. Mr. Bell has been foreman of the bridge building department of the Santa Fe railroad for nearly 1 30 years. He formerly lived at Fort Madison, lowa, but was (transferred to the Frisco division of his road 13 years ago and has lived at Stockton ever since.

"During those 27 months,’’' continued Mr. Bell, "I spent $3,700 with the hospitals, nurses and druggists, to say noithlng of railroad fare —for I have a pass—ln going from place to place, trying to regain my health, and just to think a few bottles of Tanlac at a cost almost too small to mention to has put me on my feet certainly strikes me' as being remarkable. My trouble all started from a case, of ptomaine poisoning down in Stockton. After being treated in Stockton for several weeks and getting no better I was sent to a hospital in San Francisco where I stayed for* eight weeks. When I got out I hardly had .strength to walk across the street and had actually lost 55 pounds in weight. Everything I ate would sour on my stomach and bloat me up with gas until I could hardly bend over. I kept on being treated and living on a diet without getting any better until almost gave up hope. I could drink no coffee and could only bat the very lightest of foods, such as poached eggs, mush and milk toast. I also spent a month or more at the springs near Sacraon ento but with everything that was done for me I got worse Instead of better. \ ■ "During last May I decided to come to Indianapolis, as I have two brothers living' here, and thinking possibly the change of climate might help to put my stomach In order and restore my health. When I got oft the train I barely had strength to get out 'to my brother’s house. Time rocked along—me still on my diet —but I never did take a turn f or-the better until I began taking Tanlac about six weeks ago. I commenced to improve before I had finished my first bottle of this medicine and have been steadily climbing up hill ever since. I have just finished my fifth bottle now and am 15 pounds heavier than when I took my first dose. There is absolutely nothing but what I can eait and digest perfectly now and my stomach simply feels like a new one. I sleep like a log every night and it is nothing less than wonderful way my strength and energy have come back to me. Before taking Tanlac I was bilious all the time, had a bad complexion, but now I have a good, healthy color and my relatives here are all as much delighted over my recovery as I am. My only regret is that I did not take Tanlac long ago when I first read about It In my home papers, but from now on when I need a medicine I will know what to take.” Tanlac is sold in Rensselaer by Larsh & Hopkins, and in Remington by Frank L. Peck.—-Advt.

Auctioneer Harvey Williams was over from* west of Remington yesterday. Civilisation marchet forward on the feet of children. Protect the child, buy a health bond. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Minger of Indianapolis spent Thanksgiving, here with Mr. and Mrs. Milt Roth. W. D. Sayler returned yesterday from a couple of w>eks visit with his cousin, B. L. Sayler, and other relatives at Marlon, O. The Isaac Stoller sale, east of Goodland, advertised elsewhere In today's Democrat for Dec. 2, has been indefinitely postponed. • Miss Marie Nevill, teacher In the Demotte schools, came home Wednesday evening quite sick with logoneurosis, a throat trouble. John Groom of Anderson came Wednesday evening to spend Thanksgiving with his father, Joseph Groom, of northeast of town. Twelve army airplahes and a hangar were destroyed by fire at Chanute field, Rantoul, 111., shortly before noon last Tuesday as a result <of what was believed to have been a gasoline explosion. The Van Rensselaer club dance at the Armory Thursday night was the largest attended, It Is said, of any dance ever given here, 84 couples attending. Music was furnished by Nadle's orchestra of Chicago.

Leo Reeve, a clerk in the local postoffice, pasted a very creditable postal examination a few days ago when he properly sorted 800 of more cards against time, with the exception of one card, making a grade of 99 plus. This was his first attempt at the examination. W. R. Nowels came' up from Flora yesterday where he and Mrs. Nowels are visiting for a few days and will probably be here ovew Sunday. He reports that Mrs. Nowels is much better than when they left here; in fact, better than they had ever expected she would be, but Is yet quite poorly at times. The Hartford Fire Insurance Co., tor the first time In history, is offering to write insurance on growing wheat, rye, corn, oats and barley against loss from freezing, winter kill, frost, flood, drought, insect or disease at a reasonable cost, for landlord, tenant or owner. See the agent, RAY D. THOMPSON, Rensselaer,, Ind. d 6 Charles H. Porter arrived here from Harrison, Mont., Tuesday evening, having come throtigh to Chicago with a bunch of cattle. He recently sold his ranch near Harrison and will return to that place next Tuesday to either buy another farm or dispose of his stock and farm Implements. He is to give possession Jan. 1, and is really undecided yet just where he will locate. They have had weather 10 to 25 degrees below zero there and considerable snow, but. little remains now, however.